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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

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Friedrich August von Hayek
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Category: Society

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age race or financial status.
  • 2. Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
  • 3. We virtually never feel our age but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Nothing amazes me anymore.
  • 2. It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson who is a legend.
  • 3. Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

3 Anger

  • 1. Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas is a glaring injustice which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
  • 2. When anger rises think of the consequences.
  • 3. When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short with design.
  • 2. All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
  • 3. The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
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